Giant Bombcast 07/22/2014

Brad's fresh off a plane from The International 4 to talk about rare couriers! Oh, and also Dota 2. Drew is a Ghostship Snowpiercer. Jeff plays too much bingo. Dan Ryckert doesn't know how to cook. Plus your incredible edible emails!

@jeff The AX (arcade) tracks were always in F-Zero GX and playable as unlockables, but you had to beat everything else on Master difficulty to get them. Was and still is the hardest feat I've managed to pull off in any game. Super fucking challenging. You could also play them if you copied some data from the AX machines onto a Gamecube memory card I believe, but I've never seen an AX machine so I had to do it the hard way. I'm sure I'm not alone there.

@fox318: Sunshine is pretty good, but being the sequel to one of the best games ever made? Six years afterward? Yeah, the expectations were just way too high.

I think playing that game was when I realized that Nintendo had really lost its mojo... The game was not bad but I enjoyed Jak & Daxter on the PS2 more. Nintendo wasn't infallible the way they had been before in my eyes.

Best Bombcast in a long time. Loving Brad in the host seat as he seems to be awake for it which is wonderful, plus it frees Jeff so he can make all the fantastic asshole comments he wants, which I crave. Dan's fitting right the hell in as well. I'm more than optimistic for the future of Giant Bomb, I'm downright giddy.

Not such a fan as Brad being full time host but Jeff turned it around with his masterful negotiating, finally this podcast is back on track after ages without the lastest news on Nintendo E-Shop delivered with much enthusiasm. Although Jeff should of tried to get Dota 2 talk banned, that would of brought forth a golden age for Giant Bomb.

You know. I was giving Dan a chance. I really was. I really honestly wanted to give him a chance. And then he told the egg whites story. I can't give him a chance now. I just can't.

Think of the dumbest thing you've ever done. Like, the most cringe-inducing, what-was-I-thinking, maybe-I-should-leave-town event in the history of you. Now tell everyone here in the comments what it was...

Difficult to do, right?

THIS DUDE SHAMELESSLY LEANS INTO THAT ON EVERY OCCASION. HE FUCKIN' OWNS IT AND IT'S AWESOME.

@buzz_clik: He didn't do this at the age of 10, or 14, or even 18. He did this when he was a grown-ass adult with a job living by himself. At an age where someone should have figured out like, logical thinking processes and decision making, or a way to discover new information when they don't know about something.

@ildon: Ha! Facetious or not, my enthusiasm for Dan's offhanded recounting of his WTF dumb shit is 100% legit. I wish I could be so cavalier about the embarrassing shit I've done. Then maybe I could sleep at night. Just for a half hour, maybe. I'm so tired. So tired.

Jeff was in the zone this week. Very emotionally invested and funny during the chats. I assume not having to host the podcast let him sit back and enjoy more. Brad did a fine job hosting as well! If this is how things go with Brad hosting, I fully endorse this becoming permanent.

Jeff doesn't like Mario Sunshine because the camera sucks? Then damn, Mario 64 must be the worst game ever. Like, the camera is drastically better in Sunshine than 64. Sunshine had now "normal" right stick control where as 64 had very limited "tilts" on the C buttons. This was a problem in stages that weren't like Lethal Lava Land or Bob-omb Battlefield. Mario Galaxy had something similar to 64, but was not as severe and rough as 64 due to the level design being more spherical and modular, and the higher fidelity visuals.

Also Terminator 3 is asssssssssssss

P.S. the now long-defunct RetroforceGO! Podcast (the archives are totally up there online somewhere, it's actually a great show, the even asked my questions once or twice I think) was on the hilarious and eccentric Nintendo downloadable train if you want more of that.

WOW... This was one of the best Bombcasts in recent memory. Everyone had so much energy. Drew was awesome, Dan is getting more comfortable each week, Jeff was the Jeff of old, and Brad brought back that classic Bombcast structure we've wanted for so long.

I've never said a bad word about the show and I never will. I find positivity and compliments are more beneficial for everyone.

Keep up the incredible work...

Oh, and just like I've said on Twitter, Dan is the absolute best possible person in the world to bring into the mix.

Coolio, I like Brad as host. The time is right, and I think he's been doing a good job the past couple weeks. I think Jeff is a fine host, but I think he's funnier when he isn't the glue and the host of everything. Know what I mean? I think it's a good move.

I kinda agree. Jeff has to button up a bit when he's having to worry about makin' somethin', which isn't necessarily a bad thing...but it's nice to see a bit of the side of him that he can let go when he doesn't have to focus on stuff. I'd like to see a mix - Jeff as host sometimes, Brad as host sometimes.

I find the same thing about Conan O'Brien, like he's fine as a host but I think some of his best/funniest stuff is when he's a guest on somebody else's show, which doesn't happen often.